The Struts-Layout tag library now allows you to put Suggest fields on your web pages: It is very easy to use: You only have to use a simple JSP tag: <layout:suggest suggestAction=”/getCountrySuggestions” key=”Country” styleId=”countryField” value=”” /> where “/getCountrySuggestions” is a Struts action in which you instantiate a collection containing the results matching the typed word. Read the rest…

Have you ever needed to do matrix multiplication in JavaScript ({{1,2},{3,4}}.{{1,2},{3,-4}}), or K-th Partitions (KPartitions[{a,b,c,d,e},3])? Now, we have an ajaxian symbolic calculator from Axel Kramer called MathEclipse. It’s an open source project at sf.net, and features: JavaScript auto-complete in the text-area (type ‘sin’ for example) Tomcat/Java servlet engine at the backend the math engine should Read the rest…

Web forms. Everybody knows web forms. Each day we have to fill in some information in a web form, be it a simple login to your webmail application, an online purchase or signing up for a website. They are the basic (and pretty much the only) way of gathering information on the web. You basically Read the rest…

We have had a lot of interest in Writely, a web word processor. Writely gives you a Word-like interface that appears just in your browser, and lets you: Create documents (you would hope, wouldn’t you?:) Share documents Joint editing Visit the Writely home page Go on the tour

John Carlin has created an ajaxian Football Pick’Em Game. It is a nice example of how Ajax can encapsulate your small application in one page. You simply pick the teams, and drag and drop them around! The game was built with Ruby on Rails and Scriptaculous.

Amidst the cheer at the rise of the Ajaxian nation, we quickly found those who were not happy. “Your land is flawed”, they cried. “Although you the best of the best in certain situations, only certain citizens get these benefits”. “What about catering to the entire community!” Valid points were raised. Ryan Campbell has written Read the rest…

Giorgio Braga has just released SuggestBox, a freeware AJAX component that can give to any web page the power of Google Suggest referred to own database tables. How to use it Add span tags with a SUGGEST attribute (e.g. <SPAN SUGGEST ID=”author”></SPAN>) Add the JavaScript libraries ( <SCRIPT LANGUAGE=”javascript” SRC=”SBinfo.js”></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE=”javascript” SRC=”SBcode.js”></SCRIPT>) On the Read the rest…

Max Kiesler pointed us to Bandnews.org, a site that uses Ajax in a clean and simple way. Bandnews is a website which aggregates music news live from the web and allows you to save your personal favorites or add new bands to track. Scout, which is the bandnews bot collects the news from official band Read the rest…

Dan Grossman, a VC from NYC, has put up his opinion on the top 10 Ajax appicatons: Kiko. A general purpose online calendar. Elegant interface and design. API coming soon. Backbase’s RSS Reader. Only a demo, so you canâ€™t add your own feeds. Still, very nice. Backpack. To do list organizer and simple project management Read the rest…

Casey West has created WikiWYG. Wikiwyg is the simple way to add Wysiwyg editing to your existing social software project. You attach a WYSIWYG editor to any content area (div) that you wish to allow people to edit. There are three modes available for a piece of content: Wysiwyg mode – Simple, HTML, Design Mode Read the rest…

IEBlog is reporting on the improvements made to the CSS 2.1 strict parser for IE 7. The main points that this article talks about: Using the root node wild card selector for IE only rules (* HTML) [strict mode only fix] Multi-class selectors as defined by CSS 2.1 (.floral.pastel) [strict mode only fix] Pseudo-element parsing Read the rest…

We had a lot of fun getting up and running with the first showing of Audible Ajax. Now, we are proud to release episode 2, where Ben and I step away from the microphone as we interview Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path. Jesse, of course, is the voice of the infamous Ajax: A New Read the rest…

We have released CPAINT v2.0.1 for ASP and PHP. This release combines all the patches we previously released for v2.0.0. There is no new real functionality in this version, however we do recommend that all users upgrade to the new version, due to further security enhancements. Changes: A plain text response is now returned when Read the rest…

There is another ajaxian IM client: Ajax IM. Apart from the fact that you have to register, it is actually pretty clean and slick, and is created in the “looks like an app, runs in a browser” mode of web apps. What is it? ajax im (“asynchronous javascript and xml instant messenger”) is a browser-based Read the rest…

Some people love IE, some… well not to much. Jamis Buck (Rails committer) ran into one of those “pull your hair out problems” which caused him to write IE is teh 3v1l. So, thinking it was some bonehead thing on my part I started digging in. I was able to readily duplicate the error on Read the rest…

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